Medicaid Planning Attorneys in Minnesota

15 medicaid planning firms in Minnesota, by city, county and firm type.

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County

City

Practice Area

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Planning ahead

Estate Planning15 Tax Planning9 Special Needs Planning6 Asset Protection7 Medicaid Planning15

Settling an estate

Trust Administration9 Probate14 Probate Litigation3 Trust Litigation2

Capacity and care

Elder Law10 Conservatorship8 Guardianship9

Firm Type

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15 firms

Law Office of Amy Kuronen, PLLC

9733 Russell Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55431

Works from Bloomington and meets virtually with long-standing clients in the Duluth area and the Northland. Represents personal representatives through probate from the initial paperwork to closing the estate, billed hourly, and advises trustees on trust administration. Amy Kuronen is also a Certified Financial Planner; the free initial consultation covers estate planning.

Solo PracticeVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawSpecial Needs Planning+2

1-218-464-1459

Borden, Steinbauer, Krueger & Knudson, P.A.

302 S. 6th Street, Brainerd, MN 56401

Serves Crow Wing, Cass, Aitkin, Morrison, Todd, Beltrami, and Itasca counties from Brainerd. Handles probate administration for families settling a loved one's estate, probate, trust and estate litigation, and guardianships and conservatorships, alongside wills, trusts, life estates, estate tax planning, and Medical Assistance planning. Shareholder Virginia Knudson also mediates probate disputes.

Serves 7 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationTax Planning+6

1-218-829-1451

Brink Lawyers, P.A.

234 S. Birch Ave., Hallock, MN 56728

Serves Kittson and Marshall counties from offices in Hallock and Argyle, handling matters across the Red River Valley. Represents families through probate and drafts wills, trusts, complicated trust plans, powers of attorney, and health care directives, including transfers of family businesses and property and Medical Assistance planning. Founded in Hallock by Lyman Brink in 1934.

Since 1934Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningProbateMedicaid PlanningAgricultural LawBusiness LawReal Estate

1-218-843-3686

Brouse, Woodke & Hildebrandt, PLLP

312 America Ave. NW, Bemidji, MN 56601

Serves Beltrami County and northern Minnesota from Bemidji. Handles probate alongside elder law, Medical Assistance planning for a spouse or parent entering a nursing home, and estate planning, with planning aimed at avoiding guardianship and probate costs. Partner Amber Hildebrandt serves on the MSBA Elder Law Governing Council and authored a chapter in the Elder Law Deskbook.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningProbateElder LawMedicaid PlanningBusiness Law+2

1-218-759-1673

Curtis Law (Driftless Law Office, LLC)

601 Huff Street, Winona, MN 55987

Serves the Driftless region from offices in Winona, La Crosse (WI), and Alma (WI). Handles trust and probate estate administration, guardianships and conservatorships, and Medical Assistance planning, and drafts wills, revocable and credit shelter trusts, and powers of attorney.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+6

1-507-454-3752

Farrish Johnson Law Office

1907 Excel Drive, Mankato, MN 56001

Serves southern Minnesota from offices in Mankato and Madelia, and states that its lawyers serve the entire state. Handles probate and estate administration, trust administration, affidavits of collection, guardianship and conservatorship, and estate litigation including will contests and probate and trust disputes. The firm traces its origin to a Mankato law practice opened on July 1, 1893.

Since 1893Serves the whole stateFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

1-507-625-2525

Jeddeloh Snyder Stommes

803 W St. Germain Street, St. Cloud, MN 56301

Serves Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, Wright, Morrison, Crow Wing and other central Minnesota counties from offices in St. Cloud, Cold Spring and Big Lake. Handles informal and formal probate, wills, trusts and elder law matters including Medicaid and long-term care. The firm dates to November 2000, and consultations are free by phone, video or in person.

Since 2000Serves 10 countiesFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningProbateElder LawMedicaid Planning

1-320-240-9423

Kraft Walser Law Office

107 North 9th Street, Olivia, MN 56277

Serves Renville, McLeod, Wright, and Olmsted counties from offices in Olivia, Hutchinson, Cokato, and Stewartville. Probate work covers collecting assets, paying debts and taxes, estate tax returns, court filings, and distribution to heirs; the firm also creates and administers trusts, handles guardianships and conservatorships, and does Medical Assistance planning.

Since 1916Serves 4 countiesVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningConservatorship+5

1-320-523-1322

Legal Estate Planning Solutions, PLLC

203 Jewett Street, Marshall, MN 56258

Serves Lyon County and southwest Minnesota from Marshall; attorney Dominic M. Smith is licensed in Minnesota and South Dakota. The practice is planning only: wills, trusts, transfer-on-death deeds, powers of attorney, Medical Assistance and special needs planning, and farm succession. The first consultation is a free two-hour meeting, in the office or virtual.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningElder LawTax PlanningSpecial Needs PlanningAsset ProtectionMedicaid Planning

1-507-337-2590

Abagail M. Nouska, Attorney at Law, PLLC

116 Avenue C, Cloquet, MN 55720

Serves Carlton County, including Cloquet and Moose Lake, from Cloquet. Probate and trust administration work covers estate and special administration, affidavits for collection, decrees of descent, beneficiary rights, and trust administration; planning covers wills, trusts, special needs trusts, and Medical Assistance planning. The attorney also practices family law.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateSpecial Needs PlanningMedicaid PlanningFamily Law

1-218-452-5539

Parker Satrom Law, P.A.

123 South Ashland Street, Cambridge, MN 55008

Serves Isanti, Chisago, Kanabec, Pine and Anoka counties from Cambridge. Opens estates, inventories assets, manages creditor claims and prepares estate and fiduciary tax returns for personal representatives and trustees, and handles guardianships, conservatorships and Medical Assistance planning. Founded in 1950 by Robert S. Parker, a former Isanti County Attorney.

Since 1950Serves 5 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+8

1-763-689-3000

Pemberton Law Firm

110 North Mill Street, Fergus Falls, MN 56537

Serves Otter Tail, Douglas, Becker, Wadena, Beltrami, and Stearns counties from four offices and four client service locations. Its estate, trust and probate group prepares probate petitions, inventories, accountings, and estate tax returns, and has represented clients in will contests through trial and appeal. The firm traces to an 1883 Fergus Falls partnership.

Since 1883Serves 6 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationElder Law+5

1-218-736-5493

Ramstad, Skoyles & Bakken, P.A.

114 Holmes St W, Detroit Lakes, MN 56501

Serves Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wadena, and Hubbard counties from Detroit Lakes. Represents clients through probate to collect and distribute assets after a death and manages the court process, drafts wills and trusts, and handles guardianships, conservatorships, and Medical Assistance qualification and asset protection. Continues a Detroit Lakes practice opened by Henry Jenson in 1908.

Serves 5 countiesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawConservatorshipGuardianship+4

1-218-847-5653

Safe Harbor Estate Law, PLLC

3240 Rice St, St. Paul, MN 55126

Serves clients throughout Minnesota from offices in St. Paul, Burnsville, and Wayzata. Guides personal representatives through uncontested probate and creates, administers, and defends trusts; the firm states it does not handle contested probate litigation. Planning covers wills, trusts, guardianships, special needs trusts, and Medicaid asset protection trusts.

Since 2013Serves the whole stateVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+4

1-612-615-9535

Thomason, Swanson & Zahn, PLLC

120 Main Ave N, Park Rapids, MN 56470

Serves Park Rapids and Hubbard County. Handles probate and trust administration after a death, including court filings, inventories and accountings, difficult heirs and beneficiaries and re-titling non-probate assets, and establishes and represents guardianships and conservatorships. Estate planning includes wills, trusts, medical assistance planning and veterans' benefits issues.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTax PlanningConservatorship+8

1-218-303-9549

Estate planning attorneys in Minnesota average $345 an hour for wills and estates work. A flat-fee package runs $1,035 to $2,070 for a simple individual will and $3,530 to $5,295 for a basic revocable trust. An online service prices the same documents in the tens to low hundreds of dollars; the Minnesota will cost calculator sets the two side by side.

In Minnesota, estates valued at $75,000 or less skip probate with the Affidavit for Collection of Personal Property, 30 days after death. That route is a form rather than a court case, and most families handle it without an attorney. Above the line, formal probate generally benefits from counsel for the procedural work, even when nothing is contested. The Minnesota probate calculator estimates the cost by estate value.

In Minnesota, the situations where counsel is typically worth the cost are: a blended family with children from a prior relationship; a business, rental property or significant investment assets; a dependent with special needs, who needs a special-needs trust to keep benefits; an estate near or above the Minnesota estate tax threshold of $3,000,000; substantial property in more than one state. Where none of these apply, an online or self-help document is often enough.

Filter the directory by county and by the practice area you need, and look for experience with your situation; a board certification in estate planning, trust or probate law is a strong signal. Most Minnesota estate planning attorneys offer an initial consultation, some free and some for a flat fee. Ask up front whether the firm bills by the hour or by package, and what your situation is expected to cost.

Medicaid Planning Attorneys in Minnesota

Minnesota attorneys average $345 an hour for wills and estates work. A basic will from an attorney runs $1,035–$2,070; online services cost $30–$300.

Minnesota imposes its own estate tax separate from the federal one, kicking in well below the federal exemption. Estates near the state threshold benefit from real planning — not because every family needs it, but because the line is lower than people expect.

Estates under $75,000 in Minnesota can use a simplified affidavit instead of formal probate. Most families in that range can handle it without retaining counsel.

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(4)·Updated October 15, 2026

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Data sourced from Minnesota statutes and official state code. How we research.

Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Minnesota

Free Minnesota forms to plan or settle an estate: a will, trust, powers of attorney, TOD deed and the probate forms. Prepare each form for Minnesota.

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Revocable Living Trust

Create a revocable living trust to avoid probate, protect privacy, and control asset distribution.

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Healthcare Power of Attorney

Minnesota allows a choice for a healthcare power of attorney: 2 witnesses or a notary.

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Financial Power of Attorney

Minnesota requires explicit durability language for a power of attorney to survive incapacity, and it is signed before a notary.

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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Minnesota

Free calculators and checklists to plan or settle an estate in Minnesota: will and trust costs, probate, executor pay and taxes. Run each tool for Minnesota.

How Much Does a Revocable Living Trust Cost?

An attorney-prepared revocable living trust in Minnesota runs $3,530 to $5,295 for an individual, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.

Calculate Costs

What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?

An attorney-prepared revocable trust in Minnesota runs $3,530 to $5,295 and a simple will $1,035 to $2,070, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.

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How Much Life Insurance Do I Need?

In Minnesota, four years at a public university cost about $96,456 and the cost of living is near the U.S. average; the state levies an estate tax above $3,000,000.

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How Do I Settle an Estate?

Settling an estate in Minnesota: the personal representative files the estate inventory within 180 days of appointment; creditors have 4 months to present claims; a simple estate closes in 4 months to 6 months.

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Medicaid Planning Attorneys in Minnesota

Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Minnesota

Revocable Living Trust

Healthcare Power of Attorney

Financial Power of Attorney

Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Minnesota

How Much Does a Revocable Living Trust Cost?

What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?

How Much Life Insurance Do I Need?

How Do I Settle an Estate?

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